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Title:
SCREW FALL PREVENTING STRUCTURE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2013092234
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide a screw fall preventing structure configured to prevent a screw from being screwed diagonally in fastening a unit to an apparatus body and preventing the screw from falling out of the unit easily when the screw is not fastened.

The fall preventing structure prevents drop out, from a unit, of the screw 82 for fastening the unit which can be attached to or detached from a body frame 86 of the apparatus body to the body frame 86. The fall preventing structure includes a wire piece 94 having a bent portion (94B), which is bent in a U-shaped loop, to hold the screw 82 therein axially and rotatably, and a screw 78 which is a fixing member to fasten the wire piece 94 to a main frame 72 which is a component of the unit. While being not fastened by the screw 82, the screw 82 is elastically supported by the screw 78 through the wire piece 94.


Inventors:
NARUSE KUNIHIKO
Application Number:
JP2011235940A
Publication Date:
May 16, 2013
Filing Date:
October 27, 2011
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECH
International Classes:
F16B41/00; F16B35/04; G03G15/20
Domestic Patent References:
JPH11143257A1999-05-28
JP2009258457A2009-11-05
JP2007079488A2007-03-29
JPS57184311U1982-11-22
JP2006284875A2006-10-19
JP2001175114A2001-06-29
JPS6130715U1986-02-24
JPS6391716U1988-06-14
JP2010121708A2010-06-03
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Shiro Nakajima
Kobayashi Kunito
Koji Kawabata
Koichi Kimura